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Speaker 3: Welcome to Dodger Talk. David Vasse with you from Camelback
Speaker 3: Ranch in Glendale, Arizona. We're with you until eight o'clock
Speaker 3: tonight here on AM five to seventy LA Sports. It's
Speaker 3: one of two Dodger Talks this week. Our next show
Speaker 3: is going to be seven o'clock on Thursday night, and
Speaker 3: the Dodgers will be playing a game under the lights
Speaker 3: right here at camel Back Ranch that night, so we'll
Speaker 3: have Dodger Talk as the game is going on at
Speaker 3: seven o'clock this Thursday night. But tonight tonight, we have
Speaker 3: a great show for you. We have two big time
Speaker 3: guests that have a lot to say about the Dodgers
Speaker 3: coming up in fifteen minutes, Our very own Rick Monday
Speaker 3: is going to join us. Rick and Tim Neverett have
Speaker 3: been calling and we'll call every single spring training game
Speaker 3: on sports net LA and also on the simulcast here
Speaker 3: on a five to seventy LA Sports. So Rick Monday
Speaker 3: will stop by. We'll get his thoughts on what he
Speaker 3: has seen from the Dodgers so far this spring training.
Speaker 3: And also, in case you weren't aware of this, it
Speaker 3: is fifty years ago this season that Rick Monday made
Speaker 3: a great play saving the American flag. Yeah, that's right,
Speaker 3: fifty years ago. Baseball's Hall of Fame is going to
Speaker 3: be celebrating it all year long. Major League Baseball is
Speaker 3: going to be celebrating it, and so will the Dodgers.
Speaker 3: So Rick Monday is coming up in fifteen minutes, and
Speaker 3: at the bottom of the hour, I have lined up
Speaker 3: a big time Dodger fan, a man that was at
Speaker 3: Dodgers Stadium for Game four the World Series last year.
Speaker 3: He was at at Dodger Stadium with his family back
Speaker 3: in May last year. That is the one and only
Speaker 3: former Raiders quarterback Derek Carr. Derek Carr is going to
Speaker 3: join us at the bottom of the hour and he
Speaker 3: has an incredible story to tell about a piece of
Speaker 3: history from Game six of the World Series in Toronto.
Speaker 3: So looking forward to having Derek Carr on the show.
Speaker 3: He has a new podcast out with his brother David.
Speaker 3: It comes out every Thursday. It's called home Grown. And
Speaker 3: the piece of history that he is going to tell
Speaker 3: us about is actually seen in every single episode of Homegrown.
Speaker 3: So there's a little tease to what Derek Carr's got
Speaker 3: up his sleeve. And I first met Derek Carr back
Speaker 3: in twenty nineteen when the Dodgers were up in San Francisco.
Speaker 3: The equipment managers for the Dodgers, Alex Torris and Jerry Turner,
Speaker 3: lined up for me to go out to Raiders camp
Speaker 3: as they were getting ready for their off season training
Speaker 3: program as the Dodgers were coincidentally up there in the
Speaker 3: Bay Area, and I got to meet Derek for the
Speaker 3: first time, met at the time coach John Gruden. So
Speaker 3: that was a great experience, and that was the first
Speaker 3: time that I found out that Bakersfield's own Derek Carr
Speaker 3: is a huge Dodger fan. And from that point on
Speaker 3: we've kept in some sort of contact. But first time
Speaker 3: Derek Carr is going to be on Dodger Talk tonight,
Speaker 3: So Rick Monday is coming up at seven point fifteen.
Speaker 3: Derek carr is coming up at seven thirty tonight, so
Speaker 3: a loaded show. We may or may not have a
Speaker 3: chance to get to your phone calls. We may have
Speaker 3: to push that off until Thursday. I'm sure you're very
Speaker 3: eager to give me updates about the World Baseball Classic,
Speaker 3: but I'm locked in on Dodger Baseball tonight until eight o'clock.
Speaker 3: And the Dodgers had two important games going on earlier
Speaker 3: today as far as the way their season is going
Speaker 3: to lay out this season. You had Tyler Glass now
Speaker 3: pitching on the Cactus League field against the Diamondbacks today,
Speaker 3: and you had Rogi Sasaki pitching on the White Sox
Speaker 3: side in a sort of B game. So both are
Speaker 3: important for different reasons. Glass now, to me, has looked
Speaker 3: the best mentally and physically that I have seen him
Speaker 3: with the Dodgers, and that includes the spring training going
Speaker 3: into his really best year in Major League baseball, a
Speaker 3: career high twenty two starts. He made the All Star
Speaker 3: team two years ago. But his head space, like I
Speaker 3: told Petro some money earlier today, just seems to be
Speaker 3: in a better spot than we have seen it since
Speaker 3: he became a Dodger, and a lot of that has
Speaker 3: to do with his success and uncomfortable last year and
Speaker 3: being successful coming out of the bullpen in Game six
Speaker 3: of the World Series. And today, glass Now's really good
Speaker 3: spring continued as the Dodgers beat the Diamondbacks. Glass Now
Speaker 3: pitched four to third innings, allowing just one earned run.
Speaker 3: It was actually a leadoff home run to start the game,
Speaker 3: but after that he really settled in and was mowing
Speaker 3: down the Diamondbacks. So it was a good day for
Speaker 3: glass Now, a good day for the Dodgers as they
Speaker 3: beat Arizona four to one. This morning, I saw Mooki
Speaker 3: Betts take out the plastic arrows that he is borrowing
Speaker 3: from Yoshi Yamamoto. Yeah, in case you missed that, Mookie
Speaker 3: Betts is using the darts that Yama Moto uses between
Speaker 3: starts to try to build his core and his throwing
Speaker 3: strength without having a throw a baseball. And then in
Speaker 3: the game he had two hits. So Mookie Betts is
Speaker 3: having a good spring training as well. Le Tucker stayed
Speaker 3: in the game after being hit by a pitch on
Speaker 3: his right leg It looked like his shin caf area,
Speaker 3: but after the game him and Max Munthsey both reassured
Speaker 3: me that he was fined since he stayed in the
Speaker 3: game and scored after being hit by the pitch from
Speaker 3: first base. So Kyle Tucker AOK with all that. Now,
Speaker 3: Roki Sasaki, like I mentioned, he was having a very
Speaker 3: important game on the backfield, and Andrew Friedman and the
Speaker 3: rest of the Dodger brass was out there watching that
Speaker 3: as Dave Roberts was managing the Cactus League game. And
Speaker 3: Dave Roberts said after that Sasaki was thrown about ninety
Speaker 3: eight to one hundred.
Speaker 1: He got very.
Speaker 3: Good positive He got positive reports from Sasaki's game because
Speaker 3: Sasaki pitched four scoreless innings against the White Sox and
Speaker 3: allowed just one hit. But here's the thing, Blake Snell
Speaker 3: is not going to start the season on time. Gavin
Speaker 3: Stone has been and shut down to a certain extent
Speaker 3: because of the shoulder surgery and him pitching in one
Speaker 3: game this spring and all of a sudden the shoulder barking.
Speaker 3: So the Dodgers need Roki Sasaki. And I even asked
Speaker 3: Dave Roberts earlier today, with the number of days off
Speaker 3: the Dodgers have to begin the season, do they have
Speaker 3: the luxury of allowing Susak to work out whatever hasn't
Speaker 3: clicked so far this.
Speaker 4: Spring, having Blake you know, late to the season, which
Speaker 4: we know Gavin Stone late to the season, as we know,
Speaker 4: we're gonna need Roki, you know, with the build up,
Speaker 4: you know, I just don't see a world where he
Speaker 4: doesn't break with us as a starter, and so we're
Speaker 4: gonna need those innings. I guess I'm betting on the
Speaker 4: performance to be you know, to continue to trend up,
Speaker 4: to be good enough, and to only get better with
Speaker 4: the talent that he has and the work that he's
Speaker 4: put in. So you know, I think right now he's
Speaker 4: got a I think cup more outings, two, three, more
Speaker 4: outings and then you know, we'll see where we go
Speaker 4: from there. But still my expectation is that that's where
Speaker 4: we're going to be when we start the season.
Speaker 3: Yeah, So Dave Roberts really made it clear that they
Speaker 3: need Sasaki. This is not a luxury to have him
Speaker 3: in the starting rotation. There is actually a need with
Speaker 3: the fact that River Ryan is not going to start
Speaker 3: the year with the Dodgers, He's in my opinion, going
Speaker 3: to play the Ema shean role of being a second
Speaker 3: half pitcher or maybe two months in after basically not
Speaker 3: pitching last year and coming back from Tommy John surgery.
Speaker 3: He's looked phenomenal in spring training so far, but still
Speaker 3: the Dodgers want him to get some starts under his
Speaker 3: belt in the minor league season before they call him up.
Speaker 3: So when you look at the Dodgers starting rotation as
Speaker 3: the season begins and opening day is just two weeks
Speaker 3: away on March twenty six, you're looking at Yamamoto, You're
Speaker 3: looking at Otani, You're looking at Glass. Now, Emmittsian made
Speaker 3: his first return back after being set back a couple
Speaker 3: of days with the flu like symptoms. And then Roki Sasaki,
Speaker 3: we're not even talking about Justin Robleski at this point
Speaker 3: in time. I'm not sure where the Dodgers see Robleski
Speaker 3: fitting in on the opening day roster. I know they're
Speaker 3: strying to stretch him out in have ever since Gavin
Speaker 3: Stone got hurt with the shoulder injury or setback with
Speaker 3: the shoulder surgery. So Dave Roberts, as you heard right there,
Speaker 3: he made it very clear the Dodgers are counting on
Speaker 3: Sasaki and they need him to be good. They can't
Speaker 3: just throw him out there and, similar to the beginning
Speaker 3: of last season, have him only go three or four
Speaker 3: innings and put their bullpen in a bad spot not
Speaker 3: only for that game but for the subsequent games following.
Speaker 3: So it's vital for Sasaki when he does make the
Speaker 3: star to go out there and be good, not just
Speaker 3: go out there just to say he's a starter. They
Speaker 3: need Roki Sasaki to give them solid, quality starts as
Speaker 3: they go into the season. Now, this was on the
Speaker 3: backfields today. I want to see it on the main
Speaker 3: Cactus League fields to be convinced that yeah, okay, he's
Speaker 3: turned the corner this spring and is ready to go.
Speaker 3: So that's the latest on the Dodgers starting rotation and
Speaker 3: Dave Roberts making it very clear the importance of Roki
Speaker 3: Sasaki as the Dodgers go into the season without Blake
Speaker 3: Snell and Gavin Stone. All right, coming up next on
Speaker 3: Dodger Talk Rick Monday, We'll stop by and at the
Speaker 3: bottom of the hour, Derek Carr, the former Raiders quarterback
Speaker 3: now retired or is he? We'll get into all that
Speaker 3: with Derek Carr and most importantly his love for the
Speaker 3: Dodgers as we continue until eight o'clock. Right here on
Speaker 3: five seventy LA Sports.
Speaker 1: Did you get big league this morning?
Speaker 3: Hey leok who crashed the booth?
Speaker 1: Right here?
Speaker 3: Rick Monday.
Speaker 1: Yeah, it's good to see you. Great to see you too.
Speaker 1: Can you enjoy your days off? By the way, because
Speaker 1: you left us alone here in the valley of the sun.
Speaker 3: Well, I'd rather be here with you, because, as you say,
Speaker 3: we check reality at the gate, and there was a
Speaker 3: lot of reality last week.
Speaker 1: You come back into town. All of a sudden. It
Speaker 1: rained a little bit last night. We're talking very little.
Speaker 1: It rained just enough to rearrange the dirt that was
Speaker 1: on the car, and that was about it.
Speaker 3: I was in the Dodger Clubhouse this morning and I'm
Speaker 3: trying to go under the radar, Rick, but that's really tough,
Speaker 3: and everybody noticed I was back.
Speaker 1: Let me ask you this, because we're only sixteen days
Speaker 1: away from opening day. Your impressions thus far, I've been saying,
Speaker 1: is it quite? Frankly, if you look at it, I
Speaker 1: think the fundamentals check that box off. It's still a
Speaker 1: work in progress. You're always working on fundamentals in spring training.
Speaker 1: But I think from a fundamental standpoint, this has been
Speaker 1: a very good spring up. Until this particular point. I'm
Speaker 1: talking about the cutoffs and relays. I'm talking about knowing
Speaker 1: what to do with the baseball before it's to you.
Speaker 1: We've seen two different rundowns have been executed perfectly. The
Speaker 1: ball club. Kind of the tradition of what we've seen
Speaker 1: offensively has been with the ball club that is selective
Speaker 1: and patient at home plate. They have not been expanding
Speaker 1: the strike zone, which is a good thing. Especially early,
Speaker 1: things will become more and more difficult, I think for hitters,
Speaker 1: as the pitchers and the quality of the pitchers they're
Speaker 1: going to see get stretched out even more. I think
Speaker 1: that's going to become more difficult as we get closer
Speaker 1: to actual game days in the regular season. But to
Speaker 1: this point, including the pitching, I think has been spot
Speaker 1: on for this ball club to come into the season
Speaker 1: and get ready to not just defend the World Championship,
Speaker 1: but to capture another one. Rick.
Speaker 3: I think to the way you described your teams and
Speaker 3: it resembles this one where they have fun, but everybody
Speaker 3: to a man came into camp ready for opening day
Speaker 3: back in February, and.
Speaker 1: How much of that goes back to last year? Because
Speaker 1: I said last year, if you thought it was difficult
Speaker 1: to win a World championship, it's even more difficult to
Speaker 1: come back in and defend it and reach out. Obviously,
Speaker 1: you have to get to the postseason begin with. Then
Speaker 1: you have to play. You have to play good enough
Speaker 1: baseball to advance to the biggest stage, that being the
Speaker 1: World Series. That's not an easy road to really travel
Speaker 1: down at all. It's not easy. And I agree with
Speaker 1: what Mookie bed said last year. It irritated some people,
Speaker 1: but he was very, very honest that every time the
Speaker 1: Dodgers come into town, it's going to be that team's
Speaker 1: World Series. That was not meant to demean anyone. It
Speaker 1: was meant really to be realistic in the standpoint. Even
Speaker 1: more so this year, teams will publicize, Hey, the defending
Speaker 1: champions are coming into town. That's going to be the billboard,
Speaker 1: that's going to be the sales force. In other ball clubs,
Speaker 1: it's going to be more and more difficult, and the
Speaker 1: focus of attention is going to be there, no offense
Speaker 1: and butts. That being said, I agree with what you're
Speaker 1: saying because in that locker room coming into spring trending,
Speaker 1: those guys are driven. They've accomplished a lot, but their
Speaker 1: plate's not full yet.
Speaker 3: It feels like they're acting like they lost the World Series.
Speaker 1: And you want that. You want that instead of somebody said, well,
Speaker 1: you know, we'll have another mint jewelip, things will work out. Oh,
Speaker 1: we'll be fine. No, this not the case. They're going
Speaker 1: after it. Yeah.
Speaker 3: Yeah, And certainly the Dodgers took everybody's best shot last year,
Speaker 3: so this year is going to be no different, like
Speaker 3: you said, And when you look at the Dodgers' top
Speaker 3: to bottom, Kyle Tucker really shores up a hole that
Speaker 3: was in the lineup last year. As great as the
Speaker 3: Dodgers were, don't you feel like Tucker in between Otawni
Speaker 3: and Freeman and Betch just makes them that much more
Speaker 3: of a powerful offense.
Speaker 1: Yeah, because this was a strong offense to begin with.
Speaker 1: But Kyle Tucker is also not a guy that you say, well,
Speaker 1: don't worry about him, let's work to the other guys. No,
Speaker 1: you're gonna have to worry about him. On top of it.
Speaker 1: Now we're David where Dave Roberts has him put in
Speaker 1: the lineup. As far as the positioning, we're gonna find out.
Speaker 1: Freddy Freeman said he's been told he will batter the
Speaker 1: number four spot when the season gets un away. He's
Speaker 1: trying to get a bats.
Speaker 5: Now.
Speaker 1: We've seen him in the number two spot, we've seen
Speaker 1: him three, we've seen him four. That's not the big issue,
Speaker 1: but is there a soft spot in the Dodger lineup? Now?
Speaker 1: Occasionally it's going to be. I think one other thing
Speaker 1: we can talk about is the support staff, because you're
Speaker 1: not going to have the same eight horses, the defensive players,
Speaker 1: the same eight guys that are going to be healthy
Speaker 1: the entirety of the season. You're not going to have
Speaker 1: them all play one hundred and sixty two games during
Speaker 1: the regular season. So what about the support staff. The
Speaker 1: depth that we have seen so far in spring trending,
Speaker 1: in my estimation, is exceptionally strong. The guys can play
Speaker 1: multiple positions, for example, second base position. Right now, with
Speaker 1: Tommy Edmond on the men with the ankle surgery not
Speaker 1: going to be ready for opening day, you've got three
Speaker 1: guys at second base that or say, hey, I'm kind
Speaker 1: of earning it because they're playing very well. That's a
Speaker 1: good situation to really be involved with because you have
Speaker 1: support staff that's going to be there. It's going to
Speaker 1: be more than a twenty six man roster that's going
Speaker 1: to hopefully get to the World Series and maybe hopefully
Speaker 1: win another World Championship. It is going to take the
Speaker 1: entire forty man roster. We saw that over the last
Speaker 1: two years. There are going to be injuries. There's going
Speaker 1: to be guys that need a little rest here and there.
Speaker 1: You go into this whole thing. This is an organization.
Speaker 1: It's not just twenty six guys on the team. He
Speaker 1: had no doubt.
Speaker 3: Rick Monday is our guest, and he talked about me
Speaker 3: taking a week off. Rick Monday's been busy NonStop since
Speaker 3: Game seven of the World Series. And this year is
Speaker 3: a special year for Rick Monday and the country because
Speaker 3: it's the fiftieth anniversary of you saving the flag. And
Speaker 3: I feel like you may have had as busy of
Speaker 3: an off season as any of these World champion Dodgers.
Speaker 1: Had, I said waias my wife Barbara and I have
Speaker 1: been very busy, and it's going to pick up again.
Speaker 1: In May. We will go back to Cooperstown to Hall
Speaker 1: of Fame. We're going to have something there. We'll take
Speaker 1: the flag back there with us, and then go back
Speaker 1: again in July. The Hall of Fame inductions and the
Speaker 1: celebration right there. So it's going to be a busy deal.
Speaker 1: I'm proud of the fact that it has been recognized,
Speaker 1: not from what I did recognize, but I think the
Speaker 1: patriotism in the fact that this is our two hundred
Speaker 1: and fiftieth anniversary that's coming up. That happens to be
Speaker 1: the fiftieth anniversary of the flag incint it took place.
Speaker 1: But you know how I feel about the fact, have
Speaker 1: you been in the Marine Corps reserves for six years?
Speaker 1: I believe strongly in this country, and I believe very
Speaker 1: strongly in our military and their families. Their families cannot
Speaker 1: be overlooked, either because they go through a lot in
Speaker 1: deployment and also the amount of time that our military
Speaker 1: has to put in. I think we should all be
Speaker 1: very proud. And this is a time that is kind
Speaker 1: of challenging for us and people around the world. It's
Speaker 1: a wonderful time for us all to kind of join
Speaker 1: arms or join hands and move forward. Now I don't
Speaker 1: mean to sound corny about it at all. This is
Speaker 1: a great game of baseball. One of the things that's
Speaker 1: really nice is at Dodger Stadium every night, We've got
Speaker 1: fifty thousand people to come in, and it's like a
Speaker 1: chorus of Hey, let's watch this great game of baseball,
Speaker 1: and hopefully we all kind of bond a little bit together,
Speaker 1: because we're going to need that as we go along.
Speaker 1: It's been two hundred and fifty years. What is it
Speaker 1: going to be in year five hundred from now? You know,
Speaker 1: we're only a snippet and the time capsule, and we
Speaker 1: need to make sure that we capture things very well
Speaker 1: for our portion of that time capsule.
Speaker 3: How does it make you feel that the Baseball Hall
Speaker 3: of Fame wants to honor and celebrate the great play
Speaker 3: Rick Monday made fifty years ago?
Speaker 1: I happen to be close enough to do something about it,
Speaker 1: and I still get letters about it every week, people
Speaker 1: that were not even born at that particular time. I'm
Speaker 1: happy to have been part of it. You know. I
Speaker 1: just it's not difficult to do what you think is right,
Speaker 1: And fifty years ago I thought that it was right
Speaker 1: to not have that stand by and watch what represents
Speaker 1: the rights and freedoms for all of us. Now, how
Speaker 1: we handle that and protect that, that's up to us.
Speaker 1: But to protect the rights and freedoms. There's a lot
Speaker 1: of people, David Bassey, that had played the ultimate price
Speaker 1: that they had paid in order to protect those rights
Speaker 1: and freedoms. Let me tell you a quick story. At
Speaker 1: Walter Reed Army Medical Center a number of years ago,
Speaker 1: my wife, Barbary and I were there and we brought
Speaker 1: the flag with us, and we happen to be with
Speaker 1: the physician that was just absolutely marvelous right there at
Speaker 1: the hospital, and we met a young lieutenant that had
Speaker 1: been injured only about eight days before we were there
Speaker 1: and he was airlifted and was back and he was
Speaker 1: doing well. But we went and we were able to
Speaker 1: meet him and talk to him and he said, I
Speaker 1: understand you have the flag that you took away from
Speaker 1: those individuals number of years ago with you. He said yes,
Speaker 1: And Barbara, he said, would you like to have a
Speaker 1: photo taken us? Yes? I would. And about that time
Speaker 1: a piece of shrapnel began to come up on his
Speaker 1: hand and he said to my wife, Barbara, you need
Speaker 1: to take this flag. You need to take this flag.
Speaker 1: And he said, lieutenant, no, it's fine. If you happen
Speaker 1: to bleed on it. He goes, no, ma'am, it's not
Speaker 1: I will die protecting the rights and freedoms of that flag.
Speaker 1: I will not bleed on it. And he handed the
Speaker 1: flag back. To this day, I tell the story and
Speaker 1: I begin to tear up, because that's the attitude of
Speaker 1: our military, and we're very thankful for each and every
Speaker 1: one of them to protect us. Whether we see it,
Speaker 1: we better appreciate it and move forward.
Speaker 3: Have you ever thought, these many years later that God
Speaker 3: puts you in that position because you were the right
Speaker 3: guy at the right time and the right guy to
Speaker 3: keep this going.
Speaker 1: I just happened to be there. On a lighter side
Speaker 1: of it. I was also saying, tell you know, the
Speaker 1: last thing I wanted to do, was in retrospect, was
Speaker 1: to stand there and watch them burn the flag and
Speaker 1: then have one of my former drill instructors from the
Speaker 1: Marine Corps come up and say, Marine, why did you
Speaker 1: stand there and let them do that? That was the
Speaker 1: one thing that woke me up in a cold sweat
Speaker 1: one night. What would have happened if, well, we have
Speaker 1: that flag and very proudly be able to do some
Speaker 1: things with it. That has kind of captured some attention
Speaker 1: for those that really need. You know, my wife went
Speaker 1: cross country with this flag a number of years ago
Speaker 1: from our home in Vero Beach, Florida and Memorial Island
Speaker 1: with a group called the Patriogard Riders. Their mode of
Speaker 1: transportation is about ninety five percent motorcycles. And she went
Speaker 1: with him. Yes, we had our vehicle went as well
Speaker 1: that they referred to as a cage. But they went
Speaker 1: fourteen states in fourteen days, and at every state line
Speaker 1: they had a handoff ceremony to the next group of
Speaker 1: Patrioguard writers. And also as they went through these towns,
Speaker 1: you know, the welcome to and thanks for coming. We're
Speaker 1: only about ten feet apart. I mean, very small towns.
Speaker 1: But they tried to stop at every veterans hospital that
Speaker 1: they could. And I remember Barbary called me one night
Speaker 1: and says, we need to get involved. We need to
Speaker 1: help our veterans, and we need to improve what's going
Speaker 1: on in our veterans hospitals. And that's something that we
Speaker 1: have looked at. It was something that we have been
Speaker 1: able to get involved with. But they went fourteen states
Speaker 1: fourteen days, brought the flag back to Dodger Stadium for
Speaker 1: the very first time, and it culminated that trip from
Speaker 1: a letter that we got from a pilot, helicopter pilot,
Speaker 1: MEDEVAC pilot who flew over Baghdad with the folded flag
Speaker 1: on the glare shield of his chopper for a twenty
Speaker 1: four hour period, and the letter was, along with the flag,
Speaker 1: can you get this flag to a park? I believe
Speaker 1: it was in moderate park, a park where this young
Speaker 1: man now a helicopter pilot in a war in a
Speaker 1: foreign country. But I want to know if we could
Speaker 1: get it to park where he learned how to play
Speaker 1: baseball from little and on up and have them fly
Speaker 1: this flag on the flagpole there. So she contacted the
Speaker 1: patriogard writers and they did not know until that morning
Speaker 1: that she arrived in Memorial Island in Vero Beach, Florida,
Speaker 1: that she was also going to bring the flag that
Speaker 1: I took away from the guys, you know, fifty years ago.
Speaker 1: And that was quite a trip.
Speaker 3: That's amazing, amazing stories before I let you go, and
Speaker 3: you're the Ironman of Dodger broadcasters. After you saved the
Speaker 3: flag in nineteen seventy six wearing a Cub's uniform, you
Speaker 3: became a Dodger and your first spring training was in
Speaker 3: nineteen seventy seven with the Dodgers. Your first spring training
Speaker 3: as a Dodger was nineteen seventy seven, right, What do
Speaker 3: you remember the most about being at Dodger Town in
Speaker 3: Vero Beach for the first time wearing that uniform.
Speaker 1: It's something that I embraced because growing up in Santa
Speaker 1: Monica and the Dodgers moving out from Brooklyn. You know,
Speaker 1: I would look at the telecast and I found out
Speaker 1: a little bit about this this city, Vero Beach, in
Speaker 1: a little bit about Dodger Town, because they would run
Speaker 1: highlights of different things, and you know, watching and listening
Speaker 1: to Vince Cully and Jerry Doggett in either the radio
Speaker 1: broadcast hand or the television telecast. Being able to do that,
Speaker 1: I was somewhat familiar with it. But it was also
Speaker 1: Tommy Lasorda's first full year as the manager, nineteen seventy seven.
Speaker 1: I have a wonderful photo. It was taken that year
Speaker 1: as Tommy and I were walking away from the cameraman
Speaker 1: and I've got my arm around him because Tommy and
Speaker 1: we were in uniform. And Tommy tried to sign me
Speaker 1: out of Santa Monica High School and had my mother
Speaker 1: and I to dinner one night, and at dinner, Tommy,
Speaker 1: who was a scout at the time, not a manager,
Speaker 1: put a contract in front of my mother, a single parent,
Speaker 1: and she had pen in hand. She started to sign
Speaker 1: and then put the pin down, said no, Rick needs
Speaker 1: to go to college. If he gets hurt or can't
Speaker 1: make it, he has something to fall back upon. Tommy
Speaker 1: took the contract back, crossed out the number, put a
Speaker 1: bigger number, had it in front of my mom should
Speaker 1: pick up the pin the second time and put it down.
Speaker 1: The second time, Tommy took the contract back again, crossed
Speaker 1: out the number, and put numbers in that my mother
Speaker 1: would have to work for years in order to equal
Speaker 1: that number. And she had pen in hand the third
Speaker 1: time and put it down yet again and said, no,
Speaker 1: I'm not going to give away my son to this
Speaker 1: area right here, and I'm seventeen, just out of high school.
Speaker 1: Said if he gets hurt or can't make it, he
Speaker 1: needs to have something to fall back upon. He's going
Speaker 1: to go to college. So Tommy was telling me on
Speaker 1: that photo that we're both walking away from the cameraman.
Speaker 1: He goes, you know, your mom had the greatest negotiating
Speaker 1: tactics going of all the people that I signed. I said, Tommy,
Speaker 1: you don't get it. He goes. I don't get what
Speaker 1: he goes. My mom was not negotiating. My mom was
Speaker 1: trying to protect me.
Speaker 3: Yeah, exactly. We can all appreciate that Rick. Rick Monday
Speaker 3: has an Instagram by the way, that his daughter runs
Speaker 3: for him. So some of these stories and photos are
Speaker 3: coming to life on Instagram. So we look forward to
Speaker 3: seeing more of those, Rick, thank you.
Speaker 1: For follow you all the time and see what's going on.
Speaker 3: Yeah, you see my life right, Rick, flashes right before
Speaker 3: your eyes. Maybe we'll take a picture now and send it.
Speaker 1: No, I tell you what. For everyone that listens to you,
Speaker 1: and I listened to each and every night at home
Speaker 1: during the regular season, you do a heck of a job.
Speaker 1: There's nobody else in this business that has the close
Speaker 1: relationships to the players of the organization than you do.
Speaker 1: David Besse, and for all of us around here, we
Speaker 1: understand how that works. They joke with you, you joke
Speaker 1: with them, but it's a bond, and you have earned
Speaker 1: that respect and that trust and that's not easy.
Speaker 3: No better validation than from you, Rick, So thank you
Speaker 3: and look forward to us spending a lot of quality
Speaker 3: time again this year.
Speaker 1: Don't go that far, just like I love you, but
Speaker 1: I'm all right.
Speaker 3: Rick Monday crashing the booth here. Appreciate him joining us
Speaker 3: on Dodger Talk tonight and when we continue. Not sure
Speaker 3: if Rick Monday is a big football fan, but a
Speaker 3: big Dodger fan is Derek Carr, the former Raiders quarterback,
Speaker 3: is going to join us next right here on a
Speaker 3: five to seventy LA Sports Am five seventy LA Sports.
Speaker 3: Great to have Rick Monday on in our last segment.
Speaker 3: The fiftieth anniversary of Rick saving the flag at Dodgers Stadium,
Speaker 3: and that certainly is going to be celebrated at the
Speaker 3: Hall of Fame and at Dodgers Stadium all season long.
Speaker 3: And a guy that I'm sure is very familiar with
Speaker 3: Rick Monday. I know he was an eleven year NFL quarterback,
Speaker 3: but Bakersfield used to be the single a affiliate of
Speaker 3: the LA Dodgers. They had the Brooklyn b for the
Speaker 3: Bakersfield Dodgers back in the day. He is the most
Speaker 3: famous Raider quarterback since and success well since Rich Gannon.
Speaker 3: And he's got a new podcast with his brother David
Speaker 3: home Grown. It drops every Thursday and We are so
Speaker 3: excited to have former Raiders quarterback and huge Dodger fan
Speaker 3: Derek Carr finally on Dodger Talk. Derek, thanks a lot
Speaker 3: for the time. Appreciate it.
Speaker 5: Oh absolutely, David, thank you so much. You have no
Speaker 5: idea how much it means to me to be able
Speaker 5: to be on here with you. So I appreciate you.
Speaker 3: I know, when I came to Raider camp and I
Speaker 3: met you for the first time in twenty nineteen, I
Speaker 3: was blown away. How big of a Dodger fan you were.
Speaker 3: How did this all start? Did it start with the
Speaker 3: Bakersfield Dodgers or they were You had to choose either
Speaker 3: Giants or Dodgers, and you went the right way.
Speaker 5: That's exactly right. No, we had the Bakersfield Dodgers, which
Speaker 5: was awesome because we could go there, Sam Land and
Speaker 5: go to these things and check them out and all
Speaker 5: that stuff. Growing up was so cool. My brothers, that's
Speaker 5: what they grew up doing, you know. And then my
Speaker 5: dad and our little church group for our youth where
Speaker 5: they would take like a trip every year down to
Speaker 5: Dodger Stadium and watch a game. So I got to see,
Speaker 5: you know, Griffy go ho for five and got to
Speaker 5: see all him strike out three or four times, and
Speaker 5: it was great because as a Dodger fan, and that's
Speaker 5: what you want to see. And so I got to
Speaker 5: experience that and do all those things as a kid.
Speaker 5: And so I think that we chose the right path
Speaker 5: because being in the Central Valley, you go one way
Speaker 5: or the other. And I think that we made the
Speaker 5: right choice.
Speaker 3: I would say, so, no doubt about it. So was
Speaker 3: that Ken Griffy Junior with the Reds that you saw
Speaker 3: play at Dodger Stadium?
Speaker 6: No, that was Mariners.
Speaker 5: We got to see them with the Mariners.
Speaker 1: Yep.
Speaker 5: Yeah, it was awesome.
Speaker 3: Yeah, that is certainly a great memory to have. And
Speaker 3: speaking of memories, everybody has a story, Derek about where
Speaker 3: they were watching Game seven of the World Series. Where
Speaker 3: were you watching Game seven of the World Series.
Speaker 5: Oh my gosh, that's a great question. We sold me
Speaker 5: and my boy as we were actually at our house
Speaker 5: watching and just going absolutely bonkers in our living room.
Speaker 5: And I think our neighbors thought something was wrong until
Speaker 5: they realized, oh, yes, they are not Giant fans, they
Speaker 5: are Dodger fans, and so uh, it just we couldn't
Speaker 5: believe it. Just the turn of events the home run,
Speaker 5: then you get the catch, and it's just like we
Speaker 5: just couldn't believe what was happening. So uh it was.
Speaker 5: It was a good time in our house, that's for sure.
Speaker 3: Okay, the catches when Pa haz ran over t K Hernandez,
Speaker 3: I mean, that was one of many plays the Dodgers
Speaker 3: could have lost the world series from you watching on Fox?
Speaker 3: Could you tell that Pa has made the catcher? Did
Speaker 3: you believe that it dropped?
Speaker 6: No?
Speaker 5: I had Honestly, I had no idea because I saw him,
Speaker 5: I saw him collide, key K goes down, and then
Speaker 5: I saw I saw Keyk's reaction, and so I'm like, oh.
Speaker 6: Dang, it's over. And then Paz goes.
Speaker 1: Jogging off like no, bro, like I got.
Speaker 5: It, Like we're so we were on our little group
Speaker 5: chat with me and my brothers just going absolutely crazy.
Speaker 5: But uh, but yeah, that's one of the moments right there.
Speaker 5: I'm pretty sure key K thought it was over too
Speaker 5: at that moment.
Speaker 3: Yeah, I don't think he realized. Pa Haskotta, You're right,
Speaker 3: he didn't realize it. And then you know, Derek the
Speaker 3: biggest play to me, obviously, the home runs were huge
Speaker 3: but how about in field in ninth inning. Yeah, Miguel
Speaker 3: Rojas is able to make that incredible play and Will
Speaker 3: Smith's foot comes off and then goes back on that.
Speaker 5: So that's when we It was a great opportunity for
Speaker 5: me to tell my boys, like, you know, they they
Speaker 5: want to play baseball, football, basketball, They're doing all these things,
Speaker 5: and I's like, guys, this is why every detail matters,
Speaker 5: every rep, every practice. Can you you know, Coach Gruden
Speaker 5: would always tell me you got to get quicker mentally, physically,
Speaker 5: body quicker. Can you get the ball out of your
Speaker 5: hand even quicker? And I say, this is just a
Speaker 5: great display of all that hard work, all that dedication
Speaker 5: coming down to inches. You know, you know, having the
Speaker 5: right fundamentals, you know, the right footwork, the right h
Speaker 5: you know, the right quick release and and all those things.
Speaker 5: So it was a great opportunity for me to share
Speaker 5: by boys, like on the biggest stage, like all that
Speaker 5: stuff doesn't change. And even at that moment, I mean,
Speaker 5: you were inches away from obviously that being a disaster,
Speaker 5: but we end up making that play because of not
Speaker 5: not because they made that play in that moment, because
Speaker 5: of the work they did before. So It's actually a
Speaker 5: really cool lesson for my boys, and they were all
Speaker 5: into it.
Speaker 3: Yeah, being out here at spring training. Can you believe
Speaker 3: after those plays in the World Series, I'm watching Mookie Beds,
Speaker 3: Miguel Rojas, Munsey and Freddie working on those type of
Speaker 3: plays and working on the base running. So it is repetition.
Speaker 3: Is that similar to what happens in the NFL? Is
Speaker 3: repetition as big as it is in baseball?
Speaker 5: Yeah, you know what's going through their minds. And obviously
Speaker 5: they're champions. Man, they're there and they're pros, pros. You know,
Speaker 5: they're obviously a great collection of talent. There's no denying that.
Speaker 5: But when you get a great clicktion of talent that
Speaker 5: works the way that they do, and you're saying, man,
Speaker 5: they're working on throwing infield, you know, taking grounders, base running,
Speaker 5: making sure my foot is hitting in the right place,
Speaker 5: because it really can be as they know, a game
Speaker 5: of inches that costs everything. And so for us, you know,
Speaker 5: you treat every rep as if it is Game seven,
Speaker 5: or in our case, you treat it as if it's
Speaker 5: the last drive of the Super Bowl. How's my footwork
Speaker 5: going to be?
Speaker 1: Am?
Speaker 5: I gonna you know, how quick am I going to
Speaker 5: get this ball out?
Speaker 6: How quick can I you know, make that release? How
Speaker 6: quick can I get it out of my hand? And
Speaker 6: the things that.
Speaker 5: I saw when you know, a lot of guys want
Speaker 5: to play professionally and it's awesome and to dream and
Speaker 5: all those things. But I had a coach tell me
Speaker 5: one time it is those details that turn this thing
Speaker 5: into a career or it just being a part time
Speaker 5: job for some guys, and it really stuck with me.
Speaker 5: So man I I it doesn't surprise me that they're
Speaker 5: working on those little things because that's that's what's given
Speaker 5: them such a long career. They keep grinding and thinking
Speaker 5: that they can get better, get quicker, get faster. You know,
Speaker 5: you hear Mookie throwing javelins now like different things, throwing
Speaker 5: it one hundred across the diamond and things like that.
Speaker 5: You know, they're trying to get better all the time.
Speaker 5: And this is coming from guys that are champions. But
Speaker 5: they understand what it means to be a pro, and
Speaker 5: that means it's never ending, you know, self improvement, self improvement,
Speaker 5: and that's obviously on display with those guys.
Speaker 3: Derek Carr is our guest the former Raiders quarterback is
Speaker 3: joining us. He's got a great podcast with his brother David, Homegrown.
Speaker 3: It drops every Thursday. Now, I got word Derek speaking
Speaker 3: of the World Series. You can tell me if this
Speaker 3: is true or not. But you received as a gift
Speaker 3: second base from Game six of the World Series. Is
Speaker 3: that the second base from this past World Series? You
Speaker 3: have that in your office?
Speaker 5: Yes, yes, we do.
Speaker 6: We have it in our office.
Speaker 5: And we put it right in the door where we
Speaker 5: do our homegrown deal. And if you want to come
Speaker 5: in our office, you have to round second. You have
Speaker 5: to catch the face to come in. So it's awesome.
Speaker 3: That is amazing considering that's how Game six ended with
Speaker 3: Key k Yes doubling up Barger at second base. How
Speaker 3: did you get that base?
Speaker 5: Honestly, we still don't have I don't even know if
Speaker 5: I have the real story yet. But a business partner
Speaker 5: of ours was like, man, I just wanted to get
Speaker 5: you guys something nice. And he said, I had no
Speaker 5: clue what to get you. So I thought Dodgers and
Speaker 5: he said I had I reached out and had someone
Speaker 5: and whatever, and he just went down this rabbit hole
Speaker 5: and sure enough it pops up in our office, and
Speaker 5: it's it's I mean, it's got the it's got the
Speaker 5: dirt marks, it's got the cleat marks, it's got everything.
Speaker 5: And I was like, dude, this is like such a
Speaker 5: precious thing to some Dodger fans obviously.
Speaker 1: Uh.
Speaker 5: For that moment to end right there at second base
Speaker 5: and now it's sitting here in our office in Presno, California.
Speaker 1: Is pretty cool.
Speaker 3: Derek. When you have a piece of I guess some
Speaker 3: people consider it memorabilia. Don't you view that more as
Speaker 3: a piece of sports history, Dodgery history, than you know, memorabilia.
Speaker 5: Oh, it's it's to me. It just tells the story.
Speaker 5: And it's so cool for for my boys that are
Speaker 5: Dodger fans and they're growing up and you know, loving baseball.
Speaker 5: You know, thirty years from now, they'll be able to
Speaker 5: point back and show somebody, no, this is from that
Speaker 5: game where they threw it to second base and doubled
Speaker 5: them up, and and what a cool story that'll be
Speaker 5: for you know, Dave and I's kids, you know, someday
Speaker 5: and for us to share. And it's and that's the
Speaker 5: best part about it. It's nothing that I want to
Speaker 5: It will never be something that you want to sell
Speaker 5: or do something with. It's something that you keep, and
Speaker 5: it's just so cool to have a piece of Dodger history,
Speaker 5: especially growing up, you know, being huge Dodger fans.
Speaker 3: We saw each other last May at Dodger Stadium. You
Speaker 3: brought your beautiful family out. Is there any desire to
Speaker 3: try to get Miguel Rojas or t k Hernandez to
Speaker 3: sign that Game six second base bag?
Speaker 2: Oh?
Speaker 5: Absolutely, So we've talked about that. It's like, dang, you know,
Speaker 5: they're getting ready for a game. We can't when is
Speaker 5: the right moment to ever bring it? You know, when
Speaker 5: when is those things? So hopefully hopefully one day, yeah,
Speaker 5: we'll be able to do that, but.
Speaker 6: It's definitely, you know, just being in their shoes.
Speaker 5: At some point in our life, we were like, probably
Speaker 5: not on game day, you know, it might not be
Speaker 5: the best time, but for sure that would be fantastic
Speaker 5: because we have you know, we got we're coming to
Speaker 5: ten games this year. Right came to the World Series,
Speaker 5: so we get to come to ten more this year.
Speaker 5: So I can't wait. Man, it's gonna be awesome.
Speaker 3: I am going to tell Miguil Rojas and Key k
Speaker 3: Hernandez that Derek Carr has that second base bag. I
Speaker 3: am going to make this happen for you.
Speaker 5: Oh you're the best that would Now, that would be awesome.
Speaker 5: That would be fantastic. Now we won't be able to
Speaker 5: step on it anymore, but that's okay.
Speaker 3: Yeah, tell the kids lay off the bag once it's signed.
Speaker 6: That's right, that's exactly right.
Speaker 3: Okay. So you just mentioned like the pregame warm up,
Speaker 3: you saw batting practice guys come over, talk to the kids,
Speaker 3: take pictures as you were getting ready for a big
Speaker 3: Raider game. Could you ever do something like that? How
Speaker 3: different is you know, preparing hour before kick off compared
Speaker 3: to an hour before first pitch at Dodger Stadium.
Speaker 5: Yeah, that's the that was. So that's crazy to me
Speaker 5: because I was like, man, I don't know, you know,
Speaker 5: I tried to be gracious.
Speaker 6: I'll say this, I try to be grace. If I
Speaker 6: saw a kid, obviously I had high five of them
Speaker 6: or you know, say what's up to them. But to
Speaker 6: stand there and have a conversation and take.
Speaker 5: The time and all, it just meant so much to me,
Speaker 5: just you know, as a dad, Like it's cool obviously,
Speaker 5: you know, knowing some of these guys and being friends
Speaker 5: with some of them, but just as a dad that
Speaker 5: they would take the time, you know, to you know,
Speaker 5: sign some baseballs for my kid. You know, Tanner brought
Speaker 5: out a whole bunch of baseballs for my boys and
Speaker 5: signed them for them, and and all those things, and
Speaker 5: Hisung Kim, you know, saying hi to my son and
Speaker 5: these guys coming over like it. Just just as a dad,
Speaker 5: it means the world. And then it really puts in perspective,
Speaker 5: you know, the impact that you know, I was able to.
Speaker 1: Have in my time playing.
Speaker 5: You know, they just just saying hi to kid, high
Speaker 5: five of them, throwing them your wristband after a game
Speaker 5: or a towel or things like that. Just as a
Speaker 5: parent man, you really do appreciate when the pros, you know,
Speaker 5: go out of their way to do things like that.
Speaker 5: And I think that was the biggest thing to me
Speaker 5: is these guys are obviously great baseball players, but they're
Speaker 5: really great human beings and that was really cool.
Speaker 3: Derek Carr is our guest, and like I said, Derek,
Speaker 3: I'm a big Raider fan. It was a thrill for
Speaker 3: me to come to camp. A lot of Dodger fans
Speaker 3: are huge Raider fans. So if they draft Mendoza, Derek,
Speaker 3: you meant a lot to a lot of fans and
Speaker 3: to the organization. You left it all out on the field.
Speaker 3: How much would you love if the Raiders do what
Speaker 3: the Dodgers do, for instance, and bring back guys like
Speaker 3: Ethier and Utley and Oral Herscheizer. How would you feel
Speaker 3: if the Raiders? Do you have a desire if the
Speaker 3: Raiders asked you to, you know, kind of mentor Mendoza
Speaker 3: in training camp.
Speaker 6: Yeah, you know, I have told I've told my agent.
Speaker 5: I've told people. I was like, man, if they ever
Speaker 5: you know, if they ever want me to, you know,
Speaker 5: come out there and help him in any way. Now,
Speaker 5: they got so many great coaches and they got there
Speaker 5: and all those things.
Speaker 6: But I do know that building.
Speaker 5: I do know our fan base. I do know what
Speaker 5: you know, know what it means to be a Raider
Speaker 5: and if that's something that you know, mister Davis wanted
Speaker 5: and planting those guys, you know, just to spend some
Speaker 5: time with him and just someone would it's like to
Speaker 5: be a pro. You know, I tell people I'm the
Speaker 5: most upgraded version of you know, of the iPhone. You know,
Speaker 5: I just got out of it.
Speaker 6: So I get it.
Speaker 5: You know, I've seen the coverages, I know these things,
Speaker 5: and so if that's something that they would like, if
Speaker 5: that's something that gives him some value, I would absolutely
Speaker 5: be willing to help him in any.
Speaker 3: Way, maybe be his backup quarterback, or maybe be the guy.
Speaker 3: I mean, I don't know. I saw something where I
Speaker 3: guess on your podcast Homegrown. I don't know if you
Speaker 3: were having a stream of consciousness talking to yourself, but
Speaker 3: I guess you you threw it out there that maybe
Speaker 3: you're you're contemplating a comeback.
Speaker 5: Well, you know, it's funny, as I said eight months ago,
Speaker 5: if I was healthy and there's a chance to win
Speaker 5: a championship, I think any right minded quarterback or professional
Speaker 5: would would reconsider right. And that's exactly what I said
Speaker 5: eight months ago. I said it again a few months,
Speaker 5: you know, a few weeks ago, and everyone blew it
Speaker 5: up saying I'm coming back, And I was like, guys, my,
Speaker 5: I'm playing golf, you know, and if I'm training and
Speaker 5: i'm I'm I'm ready and I'm watching Dodger games.
Speaker 6: But yeah, baby, if.
Speaker 5: That opportunity, if that opportunity came up, I would consider it,
Speaker 5: you know, I would definitely say it's a maybe. But
Speaker 5: for right now, I'm enjoying my family. Like I don't
Speaker 5: need to play football, you know. I I love my
Speaker 5: wife way too much to just go play just to.
Speaker 1: Play, you know.
Speaker 6: So I am.
Speaker 5: I am good watching my kids and and and pouring
Speaker 5: into their lives. But if that's something that that ever
Speaker 5: came up, we'd have to we'd have to have a conversation,
Speaker 5: that's for sure.
Speaker 3: Derek, thank you so much for your time. I've got
Speaker 3: to ask you one more thing. Since you brought up
Speaker 3: enjoying playing golf, being with your family, Clayton Kershaw was
Speaker 3: doing all that until the World Baseball Classic called him
Speaker 3: to pitch for Team USA. Being a big Dodger fan,
Speaker 3: Kersh has been a Dodger your entire fandom. Basically, what
Speaker 3: does he mean to you as a Dodger fan and
Speaker 3: as a as a competitor?
Speaker 5: You know, just just watching Clayton over the years, and
Speaker 5: it's crazy, you know, to see the gray hairs in
Speaker 5: my beard and to think I've been watching him this
Speaker 5: whole time, you know, so I've seen I've seen the
Speaker 5: whole career, and uh, you know, it's funny because you know,
Speaker 5: I watch him and you just respect the competitor. You
Speaker 5: respect his talents. You know that curve ball man, it's
Speaker 5: so fun to watch, right, you know, you know the
Speaker 5: breaking pitches that guys are just falling on their knees
Speaker 5: and it's you. You got all these great and then
Speaker 5: he's sneaking a high heater and they couldn't catch it.
Speaker 5: You know, just you remember these moments, uh, you know, definitively.
Speaker 5: But then you get into the person, and I think
Speaker 5: we could all agree he's an even better person that
Speaker 5: he is than he is a you know, a pitcher
Speaker 5: and a baseball player. And and that's saying a lot obviously.
Speaker 5: So I appreciate him and what he did for the
Speaker 5: Dodgers and what he did for baseball, but more importantly,
Speaker 5: I appreciate who he is as a person, because he's
Speaker 5: someone I can you know, show my kids.
Speaker 6: You know, hey, he's a great guy to watch his highlights,
Speaker 6: to root.
Speaker 5: For and and all those things and whatever he does
Speaker 5: in Linch. So uh, you know, I pray for his
Speaker 5: you know, retirement. It's hard watch him, but I'm sure
Speaker 5: he's like me. He'll it'll be hard to watch, but
Speaker 5: he'll also enjoy his body feeling a little bit better.
Speaker 3: Hey, I think we can all agree that what you
Speaker 3: described us Kershaw off the field is what people say
Speaker 3: about Derek Carr off the field, and anybody that looked
Speaker 3: up to you can be very safe and knowing that
Speaker 3: you live your life the right way. And it's been
Speaker 3: a pleasure to kind of get to know you. And
Speaker 3: when I get Rojas and Keyga to sign that second
Speaker 3: base bag, it's going to be on your side. Tell David,
Speaker 3: it's not on his side of the bag, all right,
Speaker 3: that's on your side of that second.
Speaker 1: Base absolutely no.
Speaker 5: I appreciate you. Hey, David, you're the best man. Thank
Speaker 5: you so much, and go Dodgers.
Speaker 3: Hey, go Dodgers. And the three PETA is on Derek Carr.
Speaker 3: We'll see you at Dodger Stadium this year and we
Speaker 3: can't wait for the new Homegrown podcast to drop this Thursday.
Speaker 3: Thanks a lot for the time, Derek.
Speaker 6: Yep, I appreciate you.
Speaker 1: You have it going all right?
Speaker 3: There, he goes Derek Carr, former Raiders quarterback, former Saints quarterback,
Speaker 3: and one thing that is not former is his love
Speaker 3: for the Dodgers. And after the game today, I did
Speaker 3: tell Miguel Rojas that Derek Carr does have that second
Speaker 3: base bag from Game six, and he said, hey, tell him,
Speaker 3: tell him to bring it to Dodger Stadium. I'll sign
Speaker 3: it for him. So there you go. We made magic
Speaker 3: happen already. So thank you to Derek Carr for coming
Speaker 3: on the show and can't wait to hear what he
Speaker 3: has to say on the upcoming episode of Home Grown,
Speaker 3: which drops this Thursday. So thanks to Derek Carr for
Speaker 3: his time. In case you missed that conversation or our
Speaker 3: interview with our very own Rick Monday, you can find
Speaker 3: both of those on the iHeartRadio app. Our next Dodger
Speaker 3: Talk is going to be Thursday night at seven o'clock.
Speaker 3: That's going to be an interesting Dodger Talk because the
Speaker 3: Dodgers will be playing a spring training game. Yeah, that
Speaker 3: one is under the lights. We are not broadcasting the game,
Speaker 3: but the game will be an hour in when we
Speaker 3: take the air at seven o'clock that night from camel
Speaker 3: Back Ranch, and I'm trying to work on getting somebody
Speaker 3: or a couple of people to come up to the
Speaker 3: booth to be on the show and maybe take some
Speaker 3: calls while the game is going on, so seven o'clock
Speaker 3: on Thursday night should be a fun Dodger talk as
Speaker 3: the Dodgers will be playing under the lights that night
Speaker 3: here at camel Back Ranch. So that'll do it for
Speaker 3: us until then. Thanks to Ronnie Fossio for all his help,
Speaker 3: thanks to Colini who did a great job earlier today,
Speaker 3: and thanks to you for listening. We will talk to
Speaker 3: you Thursday night at seven o'clock. Fox Sports Radio is next.
Speaker 3: Have a great rest of your night, see you